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- Title
The Commodification of Religion or the Consummation of Capitalism.
- Authors
Ward, Graham
- Abstract
This aticle discusses how demand determines exchange-value, but all demands are not homogeneous. All values are not identical, and, against a sociologist who insists that capitalism requires a law of equivalence, some demands and values are incommensurate. What the author suggests is that the production of commodities does not necessarily belong to one single economy, the capitalist one. There are other economies, other forms of exchange and therefore other systems of exchange-value. The relationship between desire and the process of producing a commodity is affected through the manner in which a manufactured thing's use-value is exceeded by its exchange-value.
- Subjects
SUPPLY &; demand; MARXIAN economics; COMMODIFICATION; COMMERCIAL products; CAPITALISM; MARKETS
- Publication
Hedgehog Review, 2003, Vol 5, Issue 2, p50
- ISSN
1527-9677
- Publication type
Article